Today is her first day in dog training. It's three weeks, I hope they can teach her something! It's some German people so I wonder if she'll now be trilingual.
Here's a picture my mom sent to me. My puppy and her puppy being BFFs!
Okay enough of my weird dog obsession.
We've decided that this week we'll contact the people in PA where my SO might have a great job opportunity. He wanted to wait until we have the visa and everything, but we need to know where we're going to move. And that depends on how much money they throw at my SO. They need to make it worth our while, ya know? So this weekend I was reworking my SO's resume. I did it in a format that I did for mine and I really liked it. But he wasn't too comfortable with it, he thought it looked too "fancy". I sent it to two engineering friends and one loved it and said he wanted to rework his in the same format, the other thought it was awful and that the fancy formatting was making up for not enough content. Ouch. Anyways, I eventually worked one that's about half way between the fancy one, and a plain list one. Added a little color and some lines. What do you guys think??
I'm also trying to write up an email. Something along the lines of "we talked before, you loved me because I'm awesome, we're almost done with visa process and plan to move in July, we want to start establishing to where we will move, so make me an offer I can't refuse. mofos".
I currently feel like I'm living in limbo. I'm waiting and waiting for case complete. Once we have that, we'll wait another week or so for our interview date. And when we finally have that we'll be able to start making serious plans about leaving the country. I want to be like "oh man, only ___ more days until we leave!" But I don't have that! I just want to know, ya know? And we need to buy some damn plane tickets. ONE WAY. AHHH.
We want to take a few fun weekend trips to the touristy places that my SO has never been to. We also want to do a day trip white water rafting. I've been three times here (and many times other places) and my SO has never been! I'm a little worried about taking him since he's not a great swimmer and is a little nervous in the water. But I think if we stick to class III and IV he should be fine. Class II and III trips are just boring...
Overall I'm pretty excited about possibly moving to PA. I'm excited for a new adventure! It could potentially suck of course, but we can stick it out for a few years. And then maybe get a job in the EU!
Plus the living with my mom in NC situation has become more complicated. At first I thought it wouldn't be great, but it'd be doable. We could live there for as long as we could stand and save on rent. But now my mom's husband's mom lives with them. And she is bipolar and I think has dementia. Just the week I was there kind of sucked. She just sits around and does nothing all day. Of course I feel bad like I need to talk to her, but I don't even know this lady ya know? She's also a huge bigot so every time I do try to talk to her she spews about how she hates Muslims and gays. Yeah, a real charmer. You also have to take care of her like a child, like she won't remember to eat on her own, you have to make and prepare all her food and hand it to her and tell her to eat. I guess I would be more sympathetic to the situation if it was my own grandma, but she's not. My mom really wants us to live with them, but I told her that the situation is not ideal anymore. I mean we'd have to share a bathroom with the lady! Who can't remember to flush the toilet. *sigh* My mom understands, but is still a little bummed. We'll see what happens.
If we don't go to PA, the other option could be living with my dad until we find an apartment. He likes his space so it would really be ONLY until we find a place of our own. But it'd at least be a place for us to crash.
So yeah, this is why I need a case complete and interview date. Plus knowing where my SO is going to work. That way we can start figuring out where the hell we're going to live!!! Every day at work I sort of just float by, waiting for school to be over so I can go home and call immigration. Sad, huh? Weekends have been fun at least. Too bad I finally have a great group of friends and I'm leaving. Suppose better late than never?
My birthday is tomorrow! Huzzah! My SO and I were going to go out somewhere only sort-of-nice to eat, but then his family said they wanted us to come over for cake. So whatever, I guess I don't care so if it makes his family happy I'll go over. I just hope my sister-in-law doesn't buy me anything for my birthday. Then it'll make us obligated to get her things. They're all about presents, we've been in trouble before for not buying them something.
My SO's last day of work is May 30!! I'm so psyched to have my house husband again. He's great as a house husband.
I feel like I have rambled enough.
Send me good vibes for a case complete this week! (best birthday present ever!)
I don't know why people think that resume is fancy (or yours, for that matter) because it really isn't. It's basic minimum to me :S
Good luck with the e-mail. Hope they still remember their offer!
Also sucks about your step-dad's mother. It must be hard on your mom. My paternal grandmother was in kinda similar situation (except she couldn't walk and had to be lifted to and from a wheelchair and taken everywhere) and she was a bigoted, insufferable person and she lived four years with us before she died. It was horrible, especially for my mother because my grandma hated her.
If Oscar isn't a great swimmer, take pity on him and do II/III. I am also someone with a weirdly intense fear of drowning, so, I can't say I'm not biased.
I hope things work out with the employer in PA and you two can figure out a living situation that works the best for everyone. I totally relate about your mom's husband's mom--my grandmother lived with us for a bit before she died, and that was hard enough on everyone. I think someone who you had no relationship with would make the situation really impossible. Your mother is a really great lady for letting her live with them.